	First Grade Unit 4 Let's Team Up
Week 1/ Week 2/Week 3/ Week 4/ Week 5
Enduring Understanding There are many different kinds of teams. Teams work together in different ways. Essential Question: How do teams work together?		Oral Vocab Cards (Notebook slides for each week. Put in full screen mode.) Visual Vocab Cards (Notebook slides for each week. Put in full screen mode.)
Treasure Quest Penguins Research Project
Week 1: Drake's Tail	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Long A (read words with ai spelling) Too Much Rain (Decodable Story)	Treasures Spelling Activity (ai, ay sort ) See and Spell Long Vowels (interactive game) See and Spell digraphs (interactive game) See and Spell more vowels (interactive game)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers look for clues to predict what will happen next in a story. Essential Question: Which parts of the story help you predict what is going to happen?	Fox and Snail (small group reading) Drakes Tail Comprehension	Making Predictions (make predictions from a story)
Week 2: Gram and Me	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Long E (read long e words) Compound Words (identify compound words)	Treasures Spelling Activity ( ee, ea, e sort) WebQuest: Compound Words This WebQuest allows students to learn about compound words while helping to build their vocabulary. Note: This quest may be completed in one lesson in the lab or as a rotation in the Classroom. Compound words (create compound words using pictures and words)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers understand the characters of a story and the setting. Essential Question: Who are the main characters in the story, and where does the story take place?	Character and Setting Gram and Me Comprehension
Week 3: Cesar Chavez	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Context Clues Long o Spelled: ow,oa and oe
Enduring Understanding: Good readers can retell the important parts of a story in sequence. Essential Question: What are the most important parts of the beginning, middle, and end of the story?	Cesar Chavez Comprehension	Make Your Own Story Students will create their own stories.
Week 4: The Kite	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Capital Letters	Treasures Vocabulary Activity (sight word practice) Treasures Spelling Activity (long i spelled i,y, igh sort)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers pay attention to what happens in a story, the problem that develops, and how the problem is solved. Essential Question: What is the problem in the story, and how is the problem solved?	Compare Frog and Toad with Double Bubble Sequence The Kite (arrange events in order) Cause and Effect The Kite Comprehension	Cause and Effect (Kidspiration Activity)
Week 5: Animal Teams	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Piggy Is Messy (decodable story) Long E (spelled y) Long E (spelled ey) Long E (spelled y and ey) Adverbs	Treasures Spelling Activity (long e spelled _y)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers can retell the important parts of a story in sequence. Essential Question: What are the most important parts of the beginning, middle, and end of the story?	Penguin Day (Integrated lesson) Pecos Bill (vocabulary extension) So Many Penguins (small group reading) Lenny Lion and Molly Mouse (small group reading) The Ant and the Grasshopper (small group reading) Animal Teams Comprehension

Theme Connections

Treasure Quest
Penguins Research Project

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Teacher Notes
Standards	Resources
Common Core Standard: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts and feelings. Technology Standard:Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Research and Inquiry Activities - Penguins Research Project
Common Core Standard: Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Treasures Spelling Activities Treasures Vocabulary Activities Too Much Rain
Common Core Standard: Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	See and Spell long vowels, digraphs, more vowels
Common Core Standard: Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Long A Long E Long E (y) Long E (ey) Long E (y,ey) Long O
Common Core Standard: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Piggy is Messy
Common Core Standard: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	So Many Penguins Lenny Lion and Molly Mouse The Ant and the Grasshopper
Common Core Standard: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Pecos Bill
Common Core Standard:Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Cause and Effect Cause and Effect (Kidspiration) Sequence the Kite Make Your Own Story Fox and Snail Drakes Tail Comprehension Character and Setting Gram and Me Comprehension Cesar Chavez Comprehension Compare Frog and Toad with Double Bubble The Kite Comprehension Animal Teams Comprehension Making Predictions-Pixie
Common Core Standard:Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration	Penguin Day
Common Core Standard:Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Context Clues
Common Core Standard: L1.b Use common, proper, and possessive nouns. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	WebQuest Compound Words Compound Words
Common Core Standard:Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Capital Letters
Common Core Standard:Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Adverbs

August 2014